| Literature DB >> 18509540 |
Alienke J Monsuur1, Paul I W de Bakker, Alexandra Zhernakova, Dalila Pinto, Willem Verduijn, Jihane Romanos, Renata Auricchio, Ana Lopez, David A van Heel, J Bart A Crusius, Cisca Wijmenga.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The HLA genes, located in the MHC region on chromosome 6p21.3, play an important role in many autoimmune disorders, such as celiac disease (CD), type 1 diabetes (T1D), rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and others. Known HLA variants that confer risk to CD, for example, include DQA1*05/DQB1*02 (DQ2.5) and DQA1*03/DQB1*0302 (DQ8). To diagnose the majority of CD patients and to study disease susceptibility and progression, typing these strongly associated HLA risk factors is of utmost importance. However, current genotyping methods for HLA risk factors involve many reactions, and are complicated and expensive. We sought a simple experimental approach using tagging SNPs that predict the CD-associated HLA risk factors.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18509540 PMCID: PMC2386975 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002270
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Figure 1HLA-DQA1* and -DQB1* together form heterodimers of which DQ2.5 and DQ8, either in homozygous or heterozygous state, confer risk to CD due to their ability to present gluten to T cells.
DQ2.2 and DQ7 can only confer risk to CD when both are present together or with DQ2.5 (trans effect, see dashed lines). See Table 1 for the possible combinations, the number of risk molecules and the associated risk.
Genetic risk associated with the different HLA-DQ molecules
| DQ molecule 1 | DQ molecule 2 | Number of functional copies | Genetic risk |
| DQ2.5 | Non-CD risk types | ≥1 | 5.5 |
| DQ2.5 | DQ2.5 | 4 | 13.1 |
| DQ2.5 | no DQ2.2, DQ2.5, DQ7 | 1 | 1.3 |
| DQ2.5 | no DQ2.5 | 1–2 | 2.5 |
| DQ2.5 | DQ2.2 | 2 | 10.1 |
| DQ2.2 or DQ2.5 | Non-CD risk types | 1–4 | 24.4 |
| DQ2.2 | DQ7 | 1 | 1.8 |
| DQ2.2 | no DQ2.5, DQ7 | 0 | - |
| DQ7 | no DQ2.2, DQ2.5 | 0 | - |
| DQ2.5 | DQ7 | 2 | - |
| DQ8 | Non-CD risk types | 1 | - |
| DQ8 | DQ8 | 4 | - |
b) Combinations of the DQ molecules on the two chromosomes, the number of functional copies and the genetic risk associated to coeliac disease (calculated using the CD cohort and the blood bank control cohort).
This risk increases to 4.1 in the DQ2.5 negative group.
Prediction results for combined cohorts
| DQ2.2 | ||||||
| + | − | total | sensitivity | 0.992 | ||
| SNP prediction | + | 126 | 3 | 129 | specificity | 0.998 |
| − | 1 | 1318 | 1319 | positive predictive value | 0.977 | |
| total | 127 | 1321 | 1448 | r-squared | 0.966 | |
| DQ2.5 | ||||||
| + | − | total | sensitivity | 1.000 | ||
| SNP prediction | + | 569 | 1 | 570 | specificity | 0.999 |
| − | 0 | 888 | 888 | positive predictive value | 0.998 | |
| total | 569 | 889 | 1458 | r-squared | 0.997 | |
| DQ7 | ||||||
| + | − | total | sensitivity | 1.000 | ||
| SNP prediction | + | 94 | 4 | 98 | specificity | 0.997 |
| − | 0 | 1372 | 1372 | positive predictive value | 0.959 | |
| total | 94 | 1376 | 1470 | r-squared | 0.956 | |
| 0.069 | ||||||
| DQ8 | ||||||
| + | − | total | sensitivity | 0.991 | ||
| SNP prediction | + | 110 | 6 | 116 | specificity | 0.996 |
| − | 1 | 1367 | 1368 | positive predictive value | 0.948 | |
| total | 111 | 1373 | 1484 | r-squared | 0.935 |
DQ molecules and tested tag SNPs
| DQ type | DQA1 | DQB1 | DR | tag SNP | Positive predicting allele(s) (freqCEU) | tag SNP | Negative predicting allele |
| DQ2.2 | 0201 | 0202 | 7 | rs2395182, rs7775228 | T (0.71), G (0.10) | rs4713586 | G (0.025) |
| DQ2.5 | 0501 | 0201 | 3 | rs2187668 | T (0.09) | ||
| DQ7 | 0505 | 0301 | 5 | rs4639334 | A (0.09) | ||
| DQ8 | 0301 | 0302 | 4 | rs7454108 | G (0.18) |
a) DQ molecules, the corresponding HLA-DQA1* and -DQB1* alleles, with the DR type and the tag SNPs. A person that has the T,G,A haplotype for rs2395182, rs7775228, rs4713586, is a DQ2.2.
A person that has the T,G,G haplotype for rs2395182, rs7775228, rs4713586, is not a DQ2.2 but a DQ4.
Freq(CEU) – frequency of annotated alleles in CEU HapMap population